Elin

“There aren’t many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places. Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It’s your fault we’re here to deal with the void in the first place.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Text me back: a love story.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I'm in love with you and you don't want anything to do with me so I think we can make this work: a love story.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, Yo, what the fuck?”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays